Improvement in portable store-counters



J. H. DAVS. Improvement in Portable Store -Couners- Patented May 28,1872.

UNITED IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE STORE-COUNTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,223, dated May 28, 1872.

Specification describing a new and 'useful Improvement in Portable Store-Counters, invented by J osHrH H. Dnvrs, of Danville, in the county of Boyle and State of Kentucky.

Figure l is aside View of my improved counter adjusted for transporting goods. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same taken through line a' Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, folded, taken through the line y y, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a detail vertical cross-section of the same taken through'the line z z, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved store-counter, which shall be so constructed that, while serving all the ordinary uses of a counter, it may be opened out to receive goods, to enable them to be readily removed from the store in case of re or vfor other purposes 5 and it consists in the construction and combination of the various parts of the counter, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the base of the counter, which is a box about eight or ten feet long and from three to three and one-half feet wide. The base A is made with an open top, andwith close bottoms, sides, and` ends. B is the top of the counter, which is made with downwardly-projecting moldings Varound the edge of its lower side to iit upon the top of the base A and keep it in place upon said top. To the bottom of the base A are hinged legs C, of such a length as when extended to raise the counter to a suitable height. The legs G should be prosuch a length that when folded down their ends may nearly meet in the center of the base A, and in such a way that when turned up into ,av vertical position their outer surfaces may be ilush with the youter surfaces of the ends of the said base A. To the side edges of each of the hinged ends F are hinged the side edges of the boards Gr, of a length equal to the height of the said ends F, of a width such that when folded against the ends F their inner edges may nearly meet in the center of the box A, and in such a way that when extended at right angles with the ends F they may extend along the sides of the said base A. To the edges of the boardsG are hinged boards H, similar to the boards G, and having in turn similar boards, I, hinged to their side edges. The number of boards GH I used must depend upon the length of the counter. rIhe sideboards of the base A, upon the inner side of their upper edges, and the hinged boards G H I, upon the outer side of their lower edges, are rabbeted, so that, while overlapping each other, all their outer surfaces may be flush with each other. By this arrangement the cover B will fit upon the upper edges of the ends F and side boards G H I with the same facility as upon the top of the base A. When in use as a counter, the ends F and boards Gr H I are folded down into the base A, the cover B is put on, and the hinged legs C are extended as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. When, in case of A, cover B, rollers D E, hinged ends F, and

sides G H I, said parts being constructed and arranged in connection with each other, substantially as herein shown and described, and

for the purpose set forth.

, J OE. H. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

JOHN T. DILLEHAY, G. P. SMITH. 

